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license: GPL-3.0-only
title: 'stats19: Work with Open Road Traffic Casualty Data from Great Britain'
version: 3.4.0.9000
doi: 10.21105/joss.01181
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.stats19
abstract: Work with and download road traffic casualty data from Great Britain. Enables
  access to the UK's official road safety statistics, 'STATS19'. Enables users to
  specify a download directory for the data, which can be set permanently by adding
  `STATS19_DOWNLOAD_DIRECTORY=/path/to/a/dir` to your `.Renviron` file, which can
  be opened with `usethis::edit_r_environ()`. The data is provided as a series of
  `.csv` files. This package downloads, reads-in and formats the data, making it suitable
  for analysis. See the stats19 vignette for details. Data available from 1979 to
  2024. See the official data series at <https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/cb7ae6f0-4be6-4935-9277-47e5ce24a11f/road-accidents-safety-data>.
  The package is described in a paper in the Journal of Open Source Software (Lovelace
  et al. 2019) <https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01181>. See Gilardi et al. (2022) <https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12823>,
  Vidal-Tortosa et al. (2021) <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2021.101291>, Tait et
  al. (2023) <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2022.106895>, and León et al. (2025) <https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v114.i09>
  for examples of how the data can be used for methodological and empirical research.
authors:
- family-names: Lovelace
  given-names: Robin
  email: rob00x@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5679-6536
- family-names: Morgan
  given-names: Malcolm
  email: m.morgan1@leeds.ac.uk
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9488-9183
- family-names: Hama
  given-names: Layik
  email: layik.hama@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1912-4890
- family-names: Padgham
  given-names: Mark
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2172-5265
- family-names: Kelly
  given-names: Blaise
  email: blaise@kello.co.uk
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2623-1598
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: 'stats 19: A package for working with open road crash data'
  authors:
  - family-names: Lovelace
    given-names: Robin
    email: rob00x@gmail.com
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5679-6536
  - family-names: Morgan
    given-names: Malcolm
    email: m.morgan1@leeds.ac.uk
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9488-9183
  - family-names: Hama
    given-names: Layik
    email: layik.hama@gmail.com
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1912-4890
  - family-names: Padgham
    given-names: Mark
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2172-5265
  - family-names: Ranzolin
    given-names: David
  - family-names: Sparks
    given-names: Adam
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0061-8359
  doi: 10.21105/joss.01181
  year: '2019'
  month: '1'
  publisher:
    name: The Open Journal
  volume: '4'
  issue: '33'
  journal: The Journal of Open Source Software
  start: '1181'
repository: https://ropensci.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/ropensci/stats19
commit: 2fb9f0fc63824622840d6eee79156918768a0695
url: https://docs.ropensci.org/stats19/
date-released: '2025-10-17'
contact:
- family-names: Lovelace
  given-names: Robin
  email: rob00x@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5679-6536
keywords:
- stats19
- road-safety
- transport
- car-crashes
- ropensci
- data